Blotting-paper



(No Model.) 7 E. B. FARRIS.

BLOTTING PAPER.

No. 283,474. Patenfied Aug; 21,1883.

I @A JW WITNESSES: [NV TOR N. PETfins. FMMDUIYIOEQFM Washington. D. C.

EDVIN B. FARRIS, OF PALERMO, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO OGLESBY, MOORE 8.: (30., OF MIDDLETOXVN, OHIO.

. BLOTTlNG-PAPER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,474, dated August 21, 1883.

Application filed 21, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, EDWIN B. FARRIS, of Palermo, lValdo county, Maine, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Blotting-Paper, of which the following is a specification.

It is Well known that the soft, thick, unsized paper known as blotting-paper is very loose in texture, and that when rubbed by the hand in use a great deal of loose fiber will be removed from its surface. This loosened matter soils clothing and desks. It is a characteristicof good blotting-paper that its surface iiber is easily removed by rubbing. is well known that a large blot of ink is best absorbed by the sharp corner of a blottingpad, after which the flat surface of the blotting-pad may be used to complete the absorbing process and complete the drying of the ink.

My invention relates to such construction of the surface of blotting-paper as to avoid the ready removal of fiber by rubbing, and give to such surface the peculiar absorbing power possessed by the corner or edge of a blot-ting I pad.

My invent-ion consists of a sheet of unsized absorbent paper having a compressed surface, presenting fine points or corrugations.

The character of the surface will be better understood from the following description of a method of producing the surface.

Let a pile of sheets of ordinary good blotting-paper have interposed between the separate sheets sheets'of fine wirecloth. Let the pile be subjected to pressure. The paper will receive the impress of the Wire'cloth, and the surface of the paper will present numerous fine points which have been less compressed 7 than the ihterst-ices'between the"points? Ins ea of Wire-cloth, emit'ssar'ar ccrrugated 'plates may be used, and the surface may, if

YVitnesses:

W. H. Tonnnnrnn, J OHN H. OGLESBY. 

